Enigma Cipher Challenge

Enigma Challenge

The Enigma Cipher Challenge has started! Your mission is to decipher ten messages, encrypted with the Enigma machine. Each of the ten stages is a bit harder to solve as the previous. To participate, you have to break the stages one by one, and e-mail me the solutions.

You can use the Enigma Sim, an accurate software simulation that works exactly as the real machine. Of course, you'll need to translate the messages, as they are in written German. You'll face the same problems as the codebreakers did in Bletchley Park, but don't worry, translation tips are available.

There's a table of honor where you can find the names of the top codebreakers, participating in the game. For the content of the messages, I tried to stay as close as possible to the historical facts. You might find help or clues in WW2 history or on the internet. Hope to get you in our codebreakers team.

Vist the challenge page... and good luck!

GPS Geocaching

Geocaching is an outdoor adventure game for GPS users. Actually, it's the modern version of the Fox Hunt, where people with direction sensitive receivers hunted for hidden little transmitters. These days, caches are set up all over the world, users sharing the locations of these caches on the internet.

One such website is Geocaching. Once a cache is found, there could be some sort of reward. When something is taken from a cache, the visitor is asked to leave something else in the cache. On the website, people can report their success, or add new caches. There are also mystery caches. A puzzle or riddle has to be solved to find the cache, or the cache itself contains a puzzle, leading to another cache.

On Geocache are several caches, using my Enigma simulator, and a Canadian one, the first ever to use my M-209 simulator. There are also Enigma Geocoins. If you have a GPS, you can join the hunt after creating a free account.